{"id":5242,"date":"2020-06-08T08:10:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2020-06-08T08:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:13:48","slug":"facebook-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=5242","title":{"rendered":"Facebook 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I did some heavy editing on Facebook yesterday. Had to dig deeply into the back-end and clear out all the standard settings on advertising preference, privacy, people I don\u2019t want to \u201cfollow\u201d (I never chose to follow any of them). I am so tired of Facebook trying to analyze my activities and judge what I want (they want) me to \u201csee\u201d.<\/p>\n

I am this close  –> . <– to shutting down Facebook again for at least 6 months, a year, maybe forever\u2026  For now, I can check in, check on my family and (real) friends and check back off in a minute or two, if nothing new from them. I will see how long these settings last.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need or want to \u201clive my life\u201d according to Facebook marketing.  I understand many lonely people need that constant contact and forced feeding. If it works for them, fine. I am not the judge.<\/p>\n

I have compassion for those people, but I choose to publish my own personal blogs where I have total control. Just like this post.  Here, I am very possibly being tracked by my own browser choice, but I am not the \u201cproduct\u201d that Facebook overtly exploits. I market nothing but my thoughts, actions and opinions and don\u2019t really desire to have then force-fed to anyone.<\/p>\n

My blogs are a personal, but open diary. Here to be read by anyone who takes interest on their own initiative. The reader is not obligated to publicly \u201clike\u201d anything I write. Opinions can be written in the comments. No shortcuts — Ha!<\/p>\n

Not preaching here. My view of how I desire to use the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did some heavy editing on Facebook yesterday. Had to dig deeply into the back-end and clear out all the standard settings on advertising preference, privacy, people I don\u2019t want to \u201cfollow\u201d (I never chose to follow any of them). I am so tired of Facebook trying to analyze my activities and judge what I want (they want) me to \u201csee\u201d. I am this close  –> . <– to shutting down Facebook again for at...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[163,84,100,160,55],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-publishing","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-publishing","tag-thought","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}